A Kenyan Mother’s Fight to Free Her Daughter From Saudi Arabia www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

ISSBD’s new Bulletin (Nov 2025 Issue.) is now available — a special IJBD supplement on Poverty in Children and Youth. Global insights, real contexts, and evidence on interventions that support young people. Full issue: issbd.org/wp-content/u... #ISSBD #IJBD #Poverty #Youth

Renew your ISSBD membership and remain part of a truly international community advancing a science that cares about people, places, and practices. members.issbd.org #ISSBD #HumanDevelopment #BehaviouralDevelopment

"Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed? If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait, which Oxford University Press has named its word or phrase of the year." bbc.com/news/article...

ISSBD 2026 Biennial Meeting — Deadline Extended Submit abstracts, travel grant apps, and pre-conference workshop apps by the new date. Info + submissions: 2026biennial.issbd.org #ISSBD2026 #ISSBD

Next in our 12-part webinar series! From Idea to Action: A Beginner’s Guide to Dissemination & Implementation Science Nov 13, 2025 | 9 AM EST 🎙️ With Dr. Amanda Morris (Oklahoma State Univ.) & Duncan Fisher (Child and Family-GO, UK) 🔗 Register: issbd.org/webinars

Excited to share that the ISSBD 2026 Biennial Meeting will be held in Incheon, South Korea 🇰🇷 (June 21–25, 2026)! - Call for Abstracts open now – deadline Dec 1, 2025 (KST): 2026biennial.issbd.org/call-for-abs... - See below for more ⬇️

ISSBD, SRCD & Utrecht University invite submissions for the Special Topic Meeting on Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity in Childhood & Adolescence – Global Forum on Development, Health & Rights. Aug 17–19, 2026. Submit abstract by Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 11:59 PM ET. bit.ly/441vhcA

How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Early-career researchers - ISSBD Travel Grants & Pre-Conference Workshops are open ahead of the 2026 Biennial Meeting in Incheon, South Korea Apply by Dec 1, 2025 👉 issbd.org/issbd-grants/ #ISSBD2026 #DevelopmentalScience #ScienceThatCares

In the end, Andrew Cuomo’s long record was a gift to Zohran Mamdani. “What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity—and what you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience,” Mamdani told Cuomo in a debate.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Amazon Web Services issue spurs outage of global websites and apps. Internet users have reported difficulties accessing popular websites and apps including Signal, Coinbase and Robinhood. aje.io/4s0ns5

Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns challenged one-party rule, rattled authorities and gave him outsized influence on political life in the East African country, died Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/4opOhcQ

Nominations are now open! Procedures and deadlines for the awards to be presented at the 2026 Biennial Meeting of ISSBD have been announced. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2025. issbd.org/news/call-fo... #ISSBDAwards #ISSBD

After two decades of sharing more online, it looks like we've decided to share less. New polling shows that nearly a third of all social media users post less than they did a year ago. www.bbc.com/worklife/art...

What Happens If No One Reads? www.thefp.com/p/what-happe...

Benjamin Netanyahu will no doubt try to sell a deal with Hamas as a win for Israel. But the ceasefire proposal is far cry from the mantra of a “total victory” that he has promised, Ruth Margalit writes.

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I’m happy to announce the publication of my new co-authored book, HOW FATHERS HELP THEIR CHILDREN DEVELOP: MONEY AND LOVE www.amazon.com/Fathers-Help... #childdevelopment #ISSBD #SRCD

"Digital tools can open up opportunities for more engaging and personalised learning, but their impact isn’t guaranteed—it depends on how intentionally they are put into practice." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Scientists tested how the body processes acoziborole, a potential single-dose cure for sleeping sickness. It’s well absorbed and slowly cleared via the gut. A step forward in the fight against this deadly neglected disease. ⤵️ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

House of Guinness review – James Norton’s pheromones positively sizzle off the screen

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

Underrated result of edtech mania: "easy access to information online and the use of online assignments may also be leading some students to treat in-person school attendance as optional...they tell their parents, 'Look, all my assignments are online, I can do them even if I’m not at school.'"

This year’s #HomeRiverBioBlitz by @edutabafrica.bsky.social Africa flowed from Kitale, Kisumu & Limuru to Finland — where communities turned rivers into classrooms with #foldscopes, sketches & stories. Huge thanks to all the partners who made this possible! #CitizenScience @inaturalist.bsky.social

A sheriff has ordered that a self-styled "African tribe" should be removed from privately-owned land in the Scottish Borders. Three members of the tribe said they were reclaiming land that was stolen from their ancestors 400 years ago. bbc.com/news/article...

Not a feature. Definitely a bug. 🐛 #Pentatomidae #ShieldBug #Insects #MobilePhotography Spotted & ID’d using @inaturalist.bsky.social

What the Fixes for Google’s Search Monopoly Mean for You: It’s a ‘Nothingburger’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

AI and the future of education Disruptions, dilemmas and directionsAI and the future of education Disruptions, dilemmas and directions. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite #Trypanosomiasis After Decades of Suffering WHO Declares Kenya Free of This Deadly Tropical Parasite After Decades of Suffering www.goodnewsnetwork.org/who-declares...

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"As AI begins generating interfaces and applications autonomously, designers must rethink their role, balancing verification, creativity, and systemic thinking" uxdesign.cc/how-to-be-th... #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEd

If human workers don’t have to read, write, or even think, it’s unclear what’s left for them to do. #AI www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

Moodle 5.0. We’ll get you there. We make upgrading simple. edutab.africa/ecampus/ #Moodle #LMS #Plugins #Customization #Learning

Show, don’t tell. prove it. Every employer, 2025 Which portfolio paths are your students ready to showcase? #portfolios #elearning #college #university #lms

Sarah learned Python during her maternity leave. Marcus earned his MBA between service calls. When learning fits life instead of disrupting it, extraordinary things happen. 🚀 edutab.africa/ecampus/ 📱 play.google.com/store/apps/d... #LifelongLearning #MobileLearning #Success

Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

A.I. Is Coming for Culture We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s left for the human imagination? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Our ISSBD Bulletin is out. The current issue explores "Global Perspectives on Poverty and Youth Development: Impact and Outcomes" Learn how early personality impacts later life. Read more: bit.ly/4fn5e48 #ISSBD #ISSBDBulletin #Youth #Poverty

Applications are open for ISSBD’s 2x2 Grant for Early Career Scholars! Open to doctoral students & postdocs (≤7 yrs since PhD), supporting diverse early-career researchers worldwide. Deadline: Oct 3, 2025. Apply 👉 issbd.org/issbd-grants/

Too much screen time causes delayed speech, attention disorders in children willowhealthmedia.org/too-much-scr... via @WillowHealthKe

a deep exploration of urbanization and spatial unevenness in economic development, in the context of Kenya distance from the colonial railway line still correlates with deep inequalities, while urbanisation has not necessarily improved lives

“When farmers have the right tools, skills and support, digitalisation becomes a catalyst for sustainability and resilience,” says the World Farmers' Organisation. In #Kenya for example, farmers are using AI tools like PlantVillage to fight pests. Explore more 👇🏾 bit.ly/44QnQWR